Conservative Party of Ecuador

The Conservative Party is a conservative political party in Ecuador that was founded by Gabriel Garcia Moreno in 1869. The party was initially associated with military rule, as the army worked in tandem with the party; the party also sought to represent Catholicism in its most traditional form. After the 1895 overthrow of the conservative regime by the liberal Eloy Alfaro, the Conservative Party lost its hegemony. The party would join several coalitions during the 20th century, but both the conservative and liberal parties had lost much of their former power by the 1960s. By 1984, the party held only two congressional seats, and it won a single National Assembly seat in 2009.